The Measurement of Legitimacy: A Rush to Judgment?

Cao, Liquin; Graham, Amanda

doi:10.1007/s11417-019-09297-w

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“…For example, Huq et al (2017; see also Jackson et al, 2012) suggest that legitimacy reflects a combination of felt obligation to obey the police and normative alignment with police. Others, such as Tankebe (2013), argue that legitimacy is best characterized as being comprised of four dimensions: procedural fairness, distributive justice, lawfulness, and effectiveness (for a recent discourse about these competing views, see the exchanges between Jackson and Bradford [2019], Cao and Graham [2019], and Trinkner [2019], among others). We concentrate only on trust in police and obligation to obey police as measures of legitimacy because these are the measures we are able to test and are the measures that feature prominently in extant research on police empowerment.…”

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Are the Effects of Legitimacy and Its Components Invariant? Operationalization and the Generality of Sunshine and Tyler’s Empowerment Hypothesis

Fox

Moule

Jaynes

et al. 2020

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives: To assess whether the relationship between legitimacy and police empowerment is sensitive to the operationalization of legitimacy, and whether the effects of legitimacy and its components on empowerment are invariant. Empowerment is examined in the context of police militarization—public support for the discretionary use of surplus military equipment by law enforcement. Method: Using a national sample of 702 American adults and a series of ordinary least squares regressions, the direct and interactive effects of legitimacy and its components on empowerment are examined. Results: The composite measure of legitimacy, as well as its individual components, each exert direct effects on police empowerment. Instrumental factors have persisting, albeit weaker, effects relative to normative factors. Interaction terms between the composite legitimacy measure or its components and sociodemographic characteristics were not statistically significant. In short, the effects of legitimacy and its components on empowerment appear invariant. Conclusions: Findings provide additional evidence of the generality of Tyler’s process–based model and extend these considerations to the burgeoning literature on public empowerment of police.

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Are the Effects of Legitimacy and Its Components Invariant? Operationalization and the Generality of Sunshine and Tyler’s Empowerment Hypothesis

Fox

Moule

Jaynes

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Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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“…Police legitimacy was also conceptualised in a number of ways in the studies reviewed: as perceived obligation to obey (Sargeant, 2017), as a combination of moral alignment and obligation to obey (Jackson et al, 2013), as confidence in police and police accountability (Schuck, 2019), and as trust and satisfaction with various police organisations (Karakus, 2017). That there was no consistent definition of legitimacy is a feature of ongoing debates in the literature about the appropriate operationalisation of this construct (see Cao and Graham, 2019;Jackson and Bradford, 2019;Trinkner, 2019 for a recent discourse centred on competing views over how to conceptualise and measure legitimacy).…”

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Policing and collective efficacy: A rapid evidence assessment

Yesberg¹,

Bradford²

2021

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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Collective efficacy is a neighbourhood social process that has important benefits for crime prevention. Policing is thought to be one antecedent to collective efficacy, but the mechanisms by which police activity and officer behaviour are thought to foster collective efficacy are not well understood. This article presents findings from a rapid evidence assessment conducted to take stock of the empirical research on policing and collective efficacy. Thirty-nine studies were identified and examined. Overall, trust in police was the aspect of policing most consistently associated with collective efficacy. There was also some evidence that community policing activities, such as visibility and community engagement, predicted collective efficacy. Police legitimacy, on the other hand, was relatively unrelated to collective efficacy: a finding which suggests perceptions of police linked to the ‘action’ of individual officers may be more enabling of collective efficacy than perceptions of the policing institution as a whole. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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“…O debate sobre a conceituação e a mensuração da legitimidade segue acontecendo (Sun et al, 2018;Jackson & Bradford, 2019;Cao & Graham, 2019;Trinkner, 2019). Como reportado nas seções anteriores, apesar de sua relevância, a legitimidade ainda é um conceito desafiador enquanto categoria de trabalho, especialmente no delineamento e na aplicação de pesquisas empíricas.…”

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Legitimidade e obediência: diálogos da Criminologia com a Teoria sociológica

2021

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O artigo discute concepções de legitimidade e de obediência sugeridas por algumas abordagens da teoria social. Dispõe-se a problematizar perspectivas que examinam tais noções no âmbito de pesquisas sociológicas e criminológicas, com foco em análises de instituições de segurança e de justiça. Partindo dos escritos de Weber sobre ordens legítimas e os tipos de dominação, exploramos as propostas de operacionalização da legitimidade elaboradas por Beetham e Coicaud. Em seguida, introduzimos o debate de criminólogos contemporâneos como Tyler, Bottoms e Tankebe, que se focam na legitimidade das leis e da polícia. Por fim, discutimos os entraves para a mensuração da legitimidade e apresentamos solução adotada no contexto brasileiro.

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The Measurement of Legitimacy: A Rush to Judgment?

Cited by 27 publications

References 25 publications

Are the Effects of Legitimacy and Its Components Invariant? Operationalization and the Generality of Sunshine and Tyler’s Empowerment Hypothesis

Are the Effects of Legitimacy and Its Components Invariant? Operationalization and the Generality of Sunshine and Tyler’s Empowerment Hypothesis

Policing and collective efficacy: A rapid evidence assessment

Legitimidade e obediência: diálogos da Criminologia com a Teoria sociológica

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